Antirefillable bottle.



Patented Mar. 21

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D. c.

ANTIREFILLABL-E BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application filed April 9, 1914, Serial No. 830,647. Renewed February14, 1916. Serial No. 78,326.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY GODDARD TUoK, mechanic, a subject of the Kingof Great Britain and Ireland, residing at.Arcadia, Bristol Road,Hurstville, in the State of New South Wales, in the Commonwealth ofAustralia, have invented a new and useful Antirefillable Bottle, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention does not really constitute a non refillable bottle,because the bottle, when empty,- may be slowly refilled under somewhatdifficult conditions but it will make the labor of re-filling the'bottle a somewhat onerous task.

The main features of the invention are (a) a perforated cap resting uponan elastic washer surrounding the mouth of the bottle (b) a stayed orguided cone valve seated within the mouth of the bottle; (0) a guideddisk lying between the cap and the cone valve; ((5) a disk that liesexternally over the perforations in the cap; (6) a soft metal diskoverlying the external disk above the cap; and (f) a strong capsule witha central orifice, the edges of which overlie the soft metal disk, andis secured skin tight to the neck of the bottle below the flange, nearthe mouth, by any approved means.

In the accompanying drawings ;-Figure 1 is a vertical section of all theappliances fitted to the mouth of a, bottle. Fig. 2 is a top plan of thecap. Fig. 3 is an underneath plan of the same. Fig. 4: is an underneathplan of the guided cone valve. Fig. 5 is a plan of the guided disk abovethe cone valve. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 7 is asimilar view to Fig. 1 but drawn to half thescale, and shows how theliquor will escape when the bottleis tilted.

A is the neck of a bottle, the inside of the neck of which must beground to the proper angle, as at a, in order to form a true seat forthe cone valve B. The flange that surrounds the neck of the bottle nearthe mouth is shown at G.-

D are radial guides to keep the valve B properly centered within themouth when the bottle is tilted, E is the cap perforated with a circleof holes 6, through which the liquor will be enabled to escape when thebottle is tilted the requisite amount. In the center of the innersurface of the cap E is a recess 6 into which the projection or stud fof the disk F can enter and have a limited play. The combined effect ofthe stud f and the recess 6 will be (when the bottle is tilted) thatthere will be an annular passage around the cone valve B and the disk F,which latter will be prevented from cover- 1ng the circle ofperforations e in the cap FJ, thus impeding the flow of liquor throughthe perforations.

WVhen the cone valve B, the disk F, and the annular washer G have beenplaced in position the cap E will be placed with its lower edge upon thewasher G, the disk H will then be laid over the perforations c in thecap, a soft metal disk J will be laid over the disk H and, finally thecapsule K with a circular orifice in its top, will be laid over theedges of the soft metal disk J, and will be secured (in any appropriatemanner) skin tight to the neck of the bottle below the flange C. Thedisk J is made of soft metal and protrudes beyond the edges of theorifice in the capsule K, in order that it may be easily cut with aknife and the two disks H and J removed so that the liquor may escapewhen the bottle is suitably tilted.

When the cone valve B and the disk F are unseated by the tilting of thebottle, an annular space will be formed around the peripheries of thetwo unseated parts through which the inclosed liquor will pass andescape through the holes 6 in the cap E. The disk F has another veryspecial function, viz: It will prevent a wire being inserted through oneof the holes 6 and introduced between the valve B and its seat, wherebythe empty bottle may be fraudulently refilled with liquor enteringthrough the holes 6. When suflicient liquor has been poured from thebottle, the latter will again be placed upright on its bottom, the valveB and the disk F will again re-seat themselves. The centering appliancesor guides D of the cone valve B and the stud f of the disk F, willprevent those parts from getting on the skew, and a uniform annularpassage for the liquor will be automatically maintained.

In combination, a bottle having a flange near'the mouth, and a groundvalve seat within the mouth, a cone valve seated on a ground seat withinthe mouth of the bottle, radial centering appliances or guidesprojecting downward from the valve, a cap the lower edge of which restson an elastic washer laid on the flange of the bottle near the mouth, acircle of holes in the cap, a

recess in the center of the undersideof the tight to the neck ofthelbottle below the cap, a disk with a central projection or studflange as and for the several purposes speci- 10 between the valve andthe cap, a disk exfied.

ternally coverin the circle of holes in the cap, a soft metal disk abovethe disk cover- HENRY GODDARD TUCK' ing the holes, and a strong capsulewith a 'Witnesses: circular orifice adapted to overlie the edges T. C.ALLEN, of the soft metal disk and be secured skin AMY GAUDER.

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